Baker v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action on a war risk insurance certificate or policy issued to Everett Baker on February 1, 1918, while he was serving in the United States navy. A jury was duly waived and the court made findings of fact and conclusions of law. The court found that all premiums, up to and including the month of December, 1918, were paid by deductions of the monthly premiums from the insured’s pay, that the insured, on December 4, 1918, in writing requested a discontinuance of his insurance and pursuant to that request the Bureau of War Risk Insurance canceled the certificate…